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MAKE GARDENS OP
PARKS AND YARDS
MOVEMENT TO START GARDENS
IN CITY BACK YARDS BY
SCHOOL CHILDREN.
WANT HELP FROM TEACHERS
Move to Keep City Children Out of
Harmful Moving Picture
Shows.
—Atlanta.
Following closely upon the sugges
tion made a tthe meeting of the City
Federation of Women’s Clubs when
Councilman Ashley advised that the
club women start a crusade to make
back yards as perfect as front yards,
comes the word from Miss Celeste
Parrish, supervisor of rural schools in
Georgia. Miss Parrish would have the
children in Atlanta start the movement
of making gardens in city back yards.
Relative to the work Miss Parrish
states :
“Back yard gardening is one of the
revelations to modern city life. As an
occupation for children, it has no
equal. The exercise furnished by it
brings into play every part of the
body, and, since it mus tbe done in
the fresh air and sunshine, it includes
many hygienic factors. It arouses a
high order of intellectual interest, and
reacts in a moral way. If the children
of Atlanta could be persuaded to un
dertake it, it would be a city analogue
of the corn and cannig clubs of the
country. In the end it would be an
economic asset for Atlant aand would
do much to solve many of the moral
problems which now perplex us. For
one thing, it would help to keep the
children off the streets, out of the
harmful moving pictuer shows and in
‘God’s great out of doors.’
“With the co-operation of the teach
ers of the city, every child could be
easily reached. With some of the inter
est now manifested by our splendid
chamber of commerce in the children,
the success of this movement for the
city children wohld be assured.
“There are practically no city lots
too small for the work. One square
lot, cultivated intensively, and plant
ed with reference to constant succes
sion, has been known to furnish a fam
ily of four or five with a variety of
delicious vegetables. Vacant lots could
now and then be secured for larger
enterprises than the home lot Avould
afford.
“Miss Beaufort Matthews, 428
Peachtree street, Atlanta, is interest
ed in this work, and is anxious to
serve the city children by stimulating
the movement. She seems to me to
be eminently fitted for the task, and
I hope that she will have the co-opera
tion of every good man and woman in
Atlanta. I entreat the various agen
cies for civic betterment and child wel
fare to give her their cordial support.”
John Carson “Boss Fiddler.”
Old John Carson, grinning and
chuckling to himself, tied his fiddle
up in its muslin bag, tucked his SSO
prize and his state championship cer
tificate in his boot leg, and started
back to Blue Ridge to sppend the bal
ance of his natural life telling the
folks how he proved himself boss fid
dler of Georgia.
Shorty Harper, also elated, took his
$35 second prize and started for Mon
roe to explain how he just missed
the “champeenship.” He will prove
what he says by the fact that he
stood second.
Joel Hudson just took his third
prize of $25 and went home, satisfied
to be ”in the -money.” Trailing after
Hudson came a dozen others, lugging
their fiddles and some portion of the
additional S2OO divided between them
by the judges.
Thus closed the three days’ fid
dling contest at the auditorium to de
termine who of all Georgias iiddleis
is the fiddlingest fiddler.
Washington’s Birthday Observed.
Despite the fact that the actual date
of the birth of the Father of His
Sountry fell on Sunday, the banks, city
and county offices, also the state and
national departments, took cognizance
of the event on the 23rd.
Just as Atlanta begins to really ap
preciate that Washington s birthday
has, from the calendar standpoint,
passed, in far-off Guam, on the Philip
pine archipelago, will be a first salut
ing the flag in honor of the event. T he
only object in bringing this point out
is to show that the date may not fall
exactly on the same hour the world
'round or even in Atlanta.
In fact, one good old mammy bon
two years befo’ freedom" told her mis
tress when informed that the day was
the one on which George Washington
first saw the light, that she was pow
erful glad that was so ’cause no one
in her family could ever tell her just
when her older brother had been
born.”
It seems that an older brother had
been named George Washington,
Issues in Georgia Politics.
Many moves are figured as possible
and probable on the political chess
board of the state in the next few
months.
With the practically accepted state
ment to the effect that Congressman
Thomas W .Hardwick of Sandersville,
now in his sixth term as representative
from the Tenth district in the national
congress, will be a candidate for suc
cession to Senator Bacon in the fed
eral election, the opening gun in what
promises to be a spectacular fight foi
control of state affairs in all important
offices has been fired.
DOINGS AROUND
STATE CAPITAL
Senator Bacon's Estate $200,000.
The will of Senator A. O. Bacon, dis
posing of an estate valued easily at
$200,000, has been offered for probate
in the court of Ordinary Wiley at Ma
con.
A. L. Miller, R. C. Jordan, Custis
Nottingham and Minter Wimberly are
the executors of the estate, and the
trustees for the life estates created
for the heirs.
The principal bequest is the giving
of Baconfields to the city for a park
as a memorial to his “ever lamented
and only sons,” this to take effect
upon the death of his wife, Mrs. Vir
ginia Lamar Sparks, and of his
daughter, Mrs. Willis B. Sparks. This
property comprises seventy-five acres
lying along the car line between
North Highlands and the river, and is
valued approximately now' at $75,000.
In addition, he gives the city the sum
of SIO,OOO in bonds of the Macon
Railway and Light company, for use
in improving the grounds for a park.
The senator’s will was written by
himself in Macon in 1909. and a cod
icil to it was executed in Washing
ton on September 6, 191”. The will
is thirty-two pages in length, and
lawyers who have read it say that it
shows in its every detail the author’s
splendid legal ability. The witnesses
to the will were J. M. Hancock, Sid
ney W. Htclier and Walter DeFore.
The executors are not required to
give any bonds and no restrictions
whatever are placed upon them. A
Macon lawyer was named one of the
executors in the will, but in the cod
icil he is stricken and Minter Wim
berly, referred to as “my tried and
trusted friend,” is substituted.
The will provides that the main
residence on Baconsfield shall be at
the personal use of Mrs. Bacon dur
ing her life, and that all of the fur
niture in it is hers unequivocally,
and that she shall have a nannuity of
SI,BOO per year.
Sub-Stations for Fighting Weevil.
Alive to the necessity of direct con
tact with conditions in south and
middle Georgia, particularly with the
near appproach of the boll weevil,
State Entomologist Lee Worsham
will immediately establish a sub-sta
rion of his department in Thomas
county.
Mr. Worsham has had this plan in
mind for some time and recently has
been making careful study of condi
tions in order to decire upon the best
location for this station. It will be
permanent in nature, and in direct
charge of Mr. C. S. Spooner, who is
an assistant in the department.
“I felt that the need tor this per
manent station existed,” said Mr.
Worsham, “and after a careful study
of the matter determined to locate it
in county. Special attention
w'ill be given to the insects injurious
to the pecan, now a big and growing
industry in that section, market
crops, cotton, and in fact all other
subjects properly coming under my
line of work.
“I am gratified to announce that
the government district agents and
ofher forces will co-operate with us,
and I believe great good will come of
this departure. South - Georgia farm
ers and others have their peculiar lo
cal problems, and I am satisfied that
the department will be broadening its
work by going direct to them. Com
petent men will be detailed as need
ed to assist Mr. Spooner, who is thor
oughly cappablee and an arnest and
conscientious scientist.
“We hope to be of material aid, al
so, to farmers in that section in get
ting ready for the coming boll weevil
ting ready for the coming of the boll
weevil. We shall help them in every
way possible.”
The sub-station or branch will be
established at once.
New in Frank Case.
Following the recent developments
in which Dr. 11. F. Harris, secretary
of the state byard of health, declared
that the strands of hair found on the
1 lathe handle on the second floor of
the pencil factory, where Leo Frank
had offices, was not that of Mary Pha
gan, the condemned man’s attorneys,
were busy preparing to move for a
new - trial.
Rube Arnold and Luther Rosser,
Frank’s attorneys, intimated the con
cealment of other important evidence.
Among other things they said:
“Unless w - e are mistaken in the
fairness of the people of Fulton coun
ty, the admitted facts about the hair
wil lawaken great wonder as to what
other things were concealed and mis
represented in the same way.
Solicitor Dorsey says that there has
been no intent to misrepresent or con
ceal any important fact.
Robert Barrett, a former employe
of the factory, now claims the SI,OOO
reward offered by tbe city of Atlanta
for important evidence leading to the
discovery of the murderers. He says
the finding of the hair did unravel
the mystery.
No More Fights in Auditorium.
Councilman D. K. Knight, chairman
of council's committee which has gen
eral control and supervision over the
Auditorium, in Atlanta, made the an
nouncement that there will be no more
prize fights allowed there.
Councilman Knight stated that the
committee has realized for some time
that prize fighting is not the most ele
vating form of amusement and espe
cially’ not the kind to bo staged at the
Auditorium, and is therefore out oi
place in a building owned by the city
The committee has complete con
trol over the auditorium.
COFFEE COUNTY PROGRESS. DOUGLAS, GEORGIA.
COLDS
An up-to-date remedy for
colds. That is what Peruna
is. In successful use over
30 years.
Colds are caught in many
ways: Illy ventilated rooms;
rooms that have direct draughts;
crowded rooms; damp houses;
stuffy school rooms; offices illy
heated.
A dose of Peruna at the right
time, at the first symptom of
cold, before the bones begin to
ache, before the sore throat
manifests itself, or the cough, or
the discharge from the nose, just
a dose or two of Peruna before
these symptoms begin is gener
ally sufficient. But after the cold
is once established with the
above symptoms prominent, a
bottle of Peruna, or maybe two,
will be necessary.
BOOTH-OVERTON
Dyspepsia Tablets
«<op rntrstlnal Fermentation, Immediately.
Relieve Gas and Distress after Katin*. One
size only, 50c. Money refunded if they do
not help, or write for Free Sample Box and
THY them first if you wish.
11 Broadway EOOTH-OVERTOH CO. New York
Casus Belli.
"Why do they hate each other so?”
“They are rivals.” “Oh, both trying to
marry the same girl, eh? That sort of
thing certainly does arouse man's pri
mal passions.” “In this case it is
worse than that. They are both try
ing to marry the same fortune.” —
Houston Post.
Fill LAXATIVE
FOR S|CK CHILD
“California Syrup of Figs” can’t
harm tender stomach,
liver and bowels.
Every mother after giving
her children “California Syrup of
Figs” that this Is their ideal laxative,
because they love its pleasant taste
and it thoroughly cleanses the tender
little stomach, liver and bow - els with
out griping.
When cross, irritable, feverish or
breath is bad, stomach sour, look at
the tongue, mother! If coated, give a
teaspoonful of this harmless “fruit
laxative,” and In a few hours all the
foul, constipated waste, sour bile and
undigested food passes out of the bow
els, and you have a well, playful child
again. When its little system is full
of cold, throat sore, has stomach-ache,
diarrhoea, indigestion, colic —remem-
ber, a good “inside cleaning” should
always be the first treatment given.
Millions of mothers keep “California
Syrup of Figs” handy; they know a
teaspoonful today saves a sick child
tomorrow. Ask at the store for a 50-
cent bottle of “California Syrup of
Figs,” which has directions for babies,
children of all ages and grown-ups
printed on the bottle. Adv.
Use for Old Umbrella Rods.
The steel rods from old umbrellas
i make fine plant supports. Disconnect
them where they join the upper part
and also where the ring slips the han
dle and you have a double rod to slip
into your flower pots, and if they are
painted gray they are unnoticeable.
ECZEMA DISFIGURED FACE
Hampton Springs,Fla.—“l had had ec
zema on my face and hands for about
three years. My face was badly dis
figured. The eczema broke out in
pimples and itched so very badly I
, would scratch it all the time. It was
| the most irritating disease I ever had.
It started on my face and hands and
it spread all over my body. I had
great large sores all over me, caused
from the eczema. It bothered me day
and night so that I could not rest
at all.
“I used three remedies for skin dis
ease and they didn't give relief at all
I was almost terrified until a friend
recommended Cuticura Soap and Oint
ment to me. They helped me from
the time I started to use them. I only
used two cakes of Cuticura Soap and
two boxes of Cuticura Ointment and
was cured.” (Signed) Mrs. E. C. Park
er, Dec. 7, 1912.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample of each
free,with 32-p. Skin Book. Address post
card "Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston.”—Adv.
The Wrong Lesson.
Father (grasping his son's ear)
You young scoundrel. I'll teach you
how to treat your mother.
Son —Ouch! Hold on now. pa. You
know you don't want me to treat
mother that way.
The Mexican Attitude.
What do you think of American
art?”
“I must say I don't much care for
their marine views.”
Death Lurks In A Weak Heart
If Your* Is fluttering or weak, use RENOVINE.” Made by Van Vleet-Mansfleld Drug Co., Memphis, Tenn. Prlo* *I.OO
SEAT LITTLE GOOD TO HIM
Smart Youth Had It But He Did Not
Proceed Far Toward His Des
tination.
An important looking and haughtily
acting young man was wandering up
and down on the platform of the rail
road station of a small western city.
He was intent on finding an empty
seat in the express, which was almost
due to start. Vainly did he search
each car. Suddenly he assumed an
official air and, walking up to the
last car, he cried out:
“All change here. This car will be
left, here.’’
The occupants of the crowded car
uttered exclamations which proved
their dissatisfaction, but hurried out
and packed themselves in other
coaches. The face of the young man
assumed a bland and childlike expres
sion as he settled himself very com
fortably in an empty seat.
Shortly after, the station agent put
his head in at the door and said:
“I suppose you’re the smart boob
who told the folks this car wasn’t go
ing, aren’t you?”
“Yes,” replied the bright, youth,
with a grin.
“Well,” responded the station agent,
“you were right. It isn’t. The brake
man heard you calling out about it,
and so he uncoupled it. He thought
you were an official.” —Lippi ncott's
Magazine.
Wanted—A New Baseball Rule.
Walter Johnson was pitching for the
Washington team, and Mr. Jennings
who was trying to pumpotimism into
his despairing players, sent up an am
bitious young man to try to make a
hit. He acted briefly. After swing
ing wildly at two of Johnson’s offer
ings, he made a third wild swing, and,
entirely by accident, popped up a lit
tle fly to first base.
As he loped down toward first, and
was called out., he turned to Jennings,
let out a stream of emphatic and pic
turesque language, and wound up with
this observation:
“I am a son of a gun if there
oughtn’t to be a rule making that guy
hang lights on the ball!”
Jennings, who got his start in life
as a miner, smiled grimly.
“Where do you think you.’re work
ing,” he asked softly, “in a coal
mine?” —The Popular Magazine.
GIRLS! GIRLS! TRY IT,
BEAUTIFY YOUR HAIR
Make It Thick, Glossy, Wavy, Luxur
iant and Remove Dandruff —Real
Surprise for You.
Your hair becomes light, wavy, fluf
fy, abundant and appears as soft, lus
trous and beautiful as a young girl’s
after a “Danderine hair cleanse.” Just
try this —moisten a cloth with a little
Danderine and carefully draw it
through your hair, taking one small
strand at a time. This will cleanse
the hair of dust, dirt and excessive oil
and in just a few moments you have
doubled the beauty of your hair.
Besides beautifying the hair at once,
Danderine dissolves every particle of
dandruff; cleanses, purifies and invig
orates the scalp, forever stopping itch
ing and falling hair.
But what will please you most will
be after a few' weeks’ use when you
will actually see new hair —fine and
downy at first—yes—but really new
hair —growing all over the scalp. If
you care for pretty, soft hair and lots
of it, surely get a 25 cent bottle of
Knowlton’s Danderine from any store
and just try it. Adv.
Sympathy.
He was middle-aged and untraveled.
For forty-five years he had lived in
the country. At last he made a trip
to the city.
There, for the first time in his life,
he saw a schoolgirl go through her
gymnastic exercises for the amuse
ment of the little ones at home. After
gazing at her with looks of interest
and compassion for some time he
asked a boy near if she had fits.
“No,” the boy replied. “Them’s
gymnastics.”
“Ah, how sad!” said the man. "How
long has she bad ’em?”
Drive that cough from your system.
Dean's Mentholated Cough Drops will
surely help you—sc at all Drug Stores.
Something Different.
“Let us get up a piscatorial excur
sion.”
“Can’t do it. I've just arranged to
go on a fishing party.”
Dr. Perry’s Vermifuge “Dead Rbot’* kill*
and expels Worms in a very few hours.
Ad v.
Three.
Professor a! Agricultural School —
What kinds of farming are there?
New Student —Extensive, intensive,
and pretensive.—lndianapolis Star.
Sore Eyes, Granulated Eyelids and Stle»
promptly healed with Roman Eye Bal
sam. Adv.
No Fair Exchange.
“She has such a rich husband.”
“And he such a poor wife.” —Balti-
more American.
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Reliable evidence ts abundant that women
are constantly being restored to health by
Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound
The many testimonial letters that we are continually pub
lishing in the newspapers —hundredsof them—are all genu
ine, true and unsolicited expressions of heartfelt gratitude
for the freedom from suffering that has come to these
women solely through the use of Lydia E. Pinkham’s
Vegetable Compound.
Money could not buy nor any kind of influence obtain
such recommendations; you may depend upon it that any
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Read this one from Mrs. Waters:
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my kidneys were affected. I had a doctor all the time and used a
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became almost a skeleton. Finally my doctor went away for his
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your medicine to every one and so does my husband.’’ —Mrs. I’illib
Waters, 1135 Knight St., Camden, N.J.
And this«one from Mrs. Haddock:
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and scarcely able to be on my feet. I had backache, headache, palpi
tation of the heart, trouble with my bowels, and inflammation. Since
taking the Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound I am better
than I have been for twenty years. I think it is a wonderful medi
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Try MUSTEROLE For
That Lame Back!
Rub it on briskly massage it in
thoroughly, and note how quickly
MUSTEROLE drives
out the stiffness and
soreness.
It beats a mustard
Elaster seven ways, and
est of all, it doesn’t
blister or burn.
MUSTEROLE is a
clean, white ointment made with oil of
mustard. It comes in handy white
glass jars. Get a jar from your drug
gist today.
MUSTEROLE is recommended by
doctors and nurses. Millions of jars
Its Kind.
“How do they propose to entertain
the convention after business hours?”
- “I supposed with canned music.”
.Many School Children Are Sickly.
Children who are delicate, feverish and eroso
will get Immediate relief from Mother Gray’s
Sweet Powders for Children. They cleanse the
stomach, acton the liver, and are recommended
for complaining children. A pleasant remedy
for worms. Used by Mothers for 24 years. At
all Druggists, 25c. Sample FREE. Addresß,
A. S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. Adv.
The only reason some people want
a finger in the pie is to keep other
people from eating it.
IF YOU'RE GROUCHY
it is likely that your liver needs stir
ring up. Wright’s Indian Vegetable
Pills will set you right quickly. Adv.
If men were as perfect as their
wives expect them to be the monotony
of married life would be debilitating.
Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets regulate
and invigorate stomach, liver and bowels.
Sugar-coated, tiny granules, easy to take as
candy. Adv.
Every mother knows that her son
ought to marry a princess.
Whenever You Need a General TonSo
Take Grove's
The Old Standard
Grove's Tasteless
chill Tonic
Is Equally Valuable as a General Strengthening Tonic, Because It Acts on the
Liver, Drives Out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and Builds Up the Whole System.
You know what you are taking when you take Grove’* Tasteless chill Tonic, ac
the formula is printed on. every label, showing that it contain* the well-known
tonic properties of QUININE and IRON. It ha* no equal for Malaria, Chills and
Fever, Weakness, General Debility and Loss of Appetite. Gives life and vigor Us
Nursing Mothers and Pale, Sickly Children. A True Tonio and Sure Appetizer;
For grown people and children. Guaranteed by your Druggist. We mean it. 50fe
are used annually for Bronchitis .Croup,
Stiff Neck, Asthma, Neuralgia, Con
gestion, Pleurisy, Rheumatism, Lum
bago, Pains and Aches of the Back or
Joints, Sprains, Sore Muscles, Braises,
Chilblains, Frosted Feet, Colds of
Chest (it prevents Pneumonia). .
TEROLE Company, Cleveland, Ohio, 1
and we will mail you a jar, postage
prepaid. />
W. H.Thurmond, Rockfish, Va.. says:
"Musterole is the greatest thing: I ever got
hold of for muscular rheumatism, affording In
stant relief to sore and stiff Joints and muscles.'*.
Make the Liver
Do its Duty
Nine times in ten when the liver |0
’ight the stomach and bowels are right,
CARTER’S LITTLE
LIVER PILLS gffßr
gentlybutfirmly
pel a lazy liver yinTCn’C
and Distress After Eating.
SMALL PILL. SMALL DOSE. SMALL PRICfc
Genuine must bear Signature
Atlanta Directory
VICTROLAS AND GRAFONOLAS
I ySweVri-B Complete stock of Victor and Co
lumbia Records. I. M.BAMECO..
64 Peachtree St. Write for catalogs
W. N. U., ATLANTA, NO. 9-1914.
At your druggist’s, '
in 25c and 50c jars, and
a special large hospital
size for $2.50.
Accept no substitute.
If your druggist can
not supply you, send
25c or 50c to the MUS-